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16th May 2012

First Female Soldier To Lose A Limb Takes A High Jump For ABF The Soldiers' Charity

At Netheravon Airfield in Salisbury last Friday (11.5.2012), Major Kate Philp of 3rd (UK) Division in Bulford, the first female soldier to lose a limb, on operations in Afghanistan in 2008, joined The Tigers Parachute Display Team from The Princess of Wales Royal Regiment and 20 other women to takes a jump from 13,000 as part of a charity skydive to raise funds for ABF The Soldiers’ Charity...

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11th May 2012 - Members Only

Armed Forces Memorial- Commemorative Book

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9th May 2012

Monte San Martino Trust Appeal

In September of 1943, after Italy had signed an armistice, tens of thousands of Allied prisoners were released from their camps and were on the run in the Italian countryside. They faced a dilemma; should they stay put and wait for the Allies to break through from the south, should they head north and head for neutral Switzerland, or go south. Whatever their choice, they would ultimately need...

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5th May 2012

Veterans Minister, Keith Brown MSP, visits the Thistle Foundation

‘Keith Brown, MSP, visited the Thistle Foundation on the 24 April to announce £80,000 worth of funding for charities that support Veterans. The Scottish Government Scottish Veterans Fund funding will support Thistle Foundation’s award-winning Lifestyle Management Course for Veterans with a grant of £10,000. Keith Brown said "I am delighted to see how the support Thistle...

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3rd May 2012

Father Starts Memorial Ride to UK Bases

The father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has began a cycle ride visiting over 50 military bases around the UK, raising awareness of the need to support fathers following the death of a family member. Sandy Elliot, 48, set off from Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen on his month long solo cycle ride at 9.30 this morning (1st May). Sandy’s son, Private Kevin Elliott of The Black Watch, 3rd...

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26th April 2012

Edinburgh Squadron Leader Runs Sahara For RAF Families

A serving RAF Officer completed a gruelling desert challenge on 16th April. Squadron Leader Daniela Spiridigliozzi Nowalski (34), from Edinburgh, took on the six day, 150 mile “Marathon Des Sables” across the Sahara Desert in aid of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (RAFBF), the RAF’s leading welfare charity. Daniela, who has served in the RAF for 13 years, has raised around...

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23rd April 2012

The Royal Hospital Chelsea - A Year in Pictures By Patricia Rodwell

Image copyright Patricia Rodwell This absorbing book is an evocative and unique record of a year in the life of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. Photographer Patricia Rodwell was granted rare, behind-the-scenes access to the Hospital, and the result is an intimate portrait of a quintessentially British institution. The Royal Hospital Chelsea was founded by Charles II ‘for the succour...

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20th April 2012

Chantel To Take On First Big Run For RAFA

After the RAF Association supported her husband in his bid for the London 2012 Paralympics, Chantel Butterworth is taking on a marathon challenge of her own, in aid of the charity. Chantel, 26, from Sale, is married to Paralympics hopeful and world champion cyclist Jon-Allan Butterworth. Former Senior Aircraftsman Jon-Allan lost his arm in a rocket attack that left him close to death, while he...

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19th April 2012

33 Squadron To Take On End to End Challenge With A Twist

Cycling all the way from John O’Groats to Lands End is an endurance challenge that many groups and individuals take part in every year. It is a testing feat of approximately 1000 miles, starting in the extreme northern point of Scotland (John O’Groats) and finishing in the most southwestward point of England (Lands End). Not content with the endurance challenge of simply cycling the...

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